Religion: I Choose John . . .

"Tu es Petrus" (Thou art Peter) sang the choir, and the ancient hymn set
off a roar that swept across St. Peter's Square and down Via della
Conciliazione to the Tiber's banks: "Viva il Papa! Viva il Papa! Viva
il Papa!" His Holiness John XXIII, Bishop of Rome, 262nd Supreme
Pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church, paused at the entrance to the
Basilica of St. Peter, a square, strong rock of a man beneath the
jeweled miter and glistening white robes.